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BHRF events
Workshops, press meets, the annual general meeting, study tours, and field visits. Toggle between list and calendar views below.
3 upcoming · 7 past
Upcoming (3)
BHRF Annual General Meeting 2026
BHRF Training Centre, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Rural Health Reporting Fellowship — mid-term review
All eleven fellows present mid-term progress on their assigned beats. Members and mentors are encouraged to attend in person.
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
BHRF Training Centre, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Field visit — Cox's Bazar: covering health in protracted displacement
Five-day reporting field visit organised in collaboration with UNHCR Bangladesh. Open to ten BHRF members; selection by application.
Sunday, 13 September 2026
Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh
Past events (7)
World No Tobacco Day — BHRF & PROGGA joint press meet
BHRF and PROGGA convene a joint press conference to release the 2026 update of the BHRF tobacco-control position paper, with comments from the parliamentary standing committee on health.
Saturday, 30 May 2026
National Press Club, Dhaka
Workshop: Ethical Health Reporting in the Age of Misinformation
Two-day intensive for working journalists on sourcing, ethics, and editorial collaboration when a viral framing competes with a more accurate one. Led by BHRF Vice President Rehana Parvin with sessions from former WHO Bangladesh communications head Dr. Sabbir Hossain.
Thursday, 21 May 2026
BHRF Training Centre, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
World Health Day 2026 — press meet & panel
Annual BHRF press meet on the WHO theme "Our Planet, Our Health". Featured a panel with the DGHS, the Department of Environment, and icddr,b on climate-driven disease in Bangladesh.
Monday, 6 April 2026
Cirdap Auditorium, Dhaka
Data Journalism Bootcamp — Spring 2026 cohort
BHRF's first dedicated data-journalism bootcamp ran as a four-week intensive in partnership with Internews and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Sixteen reporters from twelve newsrooms graduated; eight projects have been published.
Monday, 2 March 2026
BHRF Training Centre, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Study tour — icddr,b Mohakhali campus
BHRF members and Rural Reporting fellows visited the icddr,b campus for a programme of briefings on cholera surveillance, nutrition science, and the centre's clinical-trials unit.
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
icddr,b campus, Mohakhali, Dhaka
Workshop: Reporting on Mental Health — 2025 edition
Two-day workshop in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health on terminology, sourcing, and patient-identifying detail in mental-health journalism.
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
BHRF Training Centre, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
BHRF Annual General Meeting 2025
AGM 2025 saw the election of the current executive committee and the adoption of the BHRF code of ethics. Attended by 96 members.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
BHRF Training Centre, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
June 2026
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